Figurative Language Definitions
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
A simile uses a comparison word such as "like" or "as," but a metaphor does not.
What type of figurative language is this?
"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, stand ready"
Metaphor
What is the group of lines in a poem called, no matter the number of lines? It is similar to a paragraph in an essay.
A stanza
14 lines
What were the 3 "monsters" Beowulf faced in the epic? List them in order.
Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggeration used to make a point
What type of figurative language is this?
"And Patience, to prevent / That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need / Either man's work or His own gifts.'"
Personification
A couplet
What are the 3 types of sonnets?
Shakespearean (English), Petrarchan (Italian), and Spenserian.
What is the king of Herot's name?
King Hrothgar
What is a kenning?
A compound metaphor; calling something by another name in order to emphasize certain characteristics
What is the meaning of this kenning?
"Giver of rings"
Lord or king
What is a 4-line stanza called?
A quatrain
What is the function of the 9th line in an Italian sonnet?
It is a "turning point" or change in the poem between the beginning 8 lines and the last 6 lines
Name 1 major difference between how Beowulf decided to fight Grendel vs. how he decided to fight Grendel's mother.
He fought Grendel without weapons or armor, but he took both his weapons and his armor to fight Grendel's mother.
What type of figurative language is a "direct or indirect reference to another work intended to create more meaning and significance?"
An allusion
What type of figurative language is this?
"Saints do not move"
Hyperbole
What is an 8-line stanza called?
How many syllables are in each line in a traditional Haiku?
5 syllables in line 1, 7 syllables in line 2, and 5 syllables in line 3.
How did Beowulf kill Grendel's mother?
He sliced off her head using a sword he found in her underwater lair.
What type of figurative language repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of words?
EX: Sally sold seashells by the seashore
Alliteration
What 2 types of figurative language are in this?
"When you behold that angel's blessed look / My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss."
Metaphor and alliteration
What is iambic pentameter? What is the order of syllables?
A line of poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable, and so on.
What type of sonnet is this?
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o’er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing ‘gainst Time’s scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet
Where was Beowulf from?
Geatland